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Mount Sharp

  • 2910 m (9,548ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
52.2433N -118.032W
Located in the Clemenceau Icefield area, 5.1 km west of Mount Clemenceau; northeast of Cummins Glacier

Province: BC
Headwater: Columbia
Ascent Date: 1972
Ascent Party: R. Lidstone and party
Year Named: 1972
Named by: Alpine Club of Canada
Named for: Sharp, William T. (William Sharp was killed by a falling serac on the Clemenceau Glacier.)

William Sharp and Roland Morrison were both killed by falling seracs. Mount Sharp and Mount Morrison are only 200 metres apart on a ridge to the northeast of the Cummins Glacier in the Clemenceau Icefield area.